Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He has also complained to County Hall at Durham about county councillor Charles French who spoke against the postal vote at the meeting . |
2 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
3 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
4 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
5 | He had not retired to bed sober , but then he rarely , if ever , did . |
6 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
7 | The various possible emphases in thinking about revelation are illuminatingly analysed by Dulles ( 1983 ) , using the method of ‘ models ’ which he had previously applied to ecclesiology . |
8 | He gave evidence in support of the claims of the tenantry before the Bessborough commission ( 1880 ) but he had already come to prominence when he performed brilliantly as an expert witness on canon law in the celebrated O'Keefe law case in 1875 . |
9 | Mr Mackie claimed he had later progressed to heroin and that Murray had again injected the drug to him . |
10 | He had n't gone to Auntie 's funeral — children often do n't . |
11 | He had often drunk to excess in alcoholic ‘ binges ’ . |
12 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
13 | HP 's Larry Lytle , loaned to the Open Software Foundation back at its inception to handle recruiting , has made a 180 degree turn after a stint at Netwise as strategic relations director where he had philosophical differences with OSf : He 's now gone to Unix System Labs as director of corporate communications . |